One way to help increase your number of Twitter followers is to make your profile look great.
1. Pick a good background image from iStockPhoto or DeviantArt
- make sure you’re legal (pay for the image, or check the rights)
- pick something that makes for a nice background (not foreground)
- make sure the interesting part of the image is in the upper left (see next point)
- pick an image that fades to a solid color on the bottom and right edges
2. Customize your image. I like to use Skitch and Pixelmator for this.
- you may need to stretch your image so that it works as a background, or fade the edges to a solid color.
- you can text on their background image (a company logo or “about me” blurb)
3. Upload your image and choose background colors to match the solid color at the right and bottom of the image. This will give the appearance that your image goes on forever.
Once you’ve customized your profile, post a comment below to get feedback from others.
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Online income courses 01.24.09 at 3:45 am
I have seen a lot of tutorials and tips regarding twitter but this one is outstanding. My 1-year old twitter acocunt has more than 2k followers but my profile is in default design.
Sven Mecklenburg 02.13.09 at 2:12 am
Thanks for this information. Does it work with any resolution and any browser? What other image collection you can suggest?